Comments on: Citrix and VMware Want to Turn Data Centers Into Clouds http://gigaom.com/2008/09/15/citrix-and-vmware-want-to-turn-data-centers-into-clouds/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Open Source Router Gets $10M, Teams Up With Citrix http://gigaom.com/2008/09/15/citrix-and-vmware-want-to-turn-data-centers-into-clouds/#comment-147152 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:51:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=21047#comment-147152 [...] Citrix is a believer in this trend and it recently virtualized its Netscaler platform as part of its efforts to virtualize network resources. While Vyatta is small, it helps Citrix get into the enterprise routing market. For little Vyatta – well being part of Citrix’s cloud efforts can’t hurt. [...]

]]> By: RightScale Makes Multiple Clouds Work - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/09/15/citrix-and-vmware-want-to-turn-data-centers-into-clouds/#comment-147151 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:13:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=21047#comment-147151 [...] September 17, 2008 at 12:12 PM PT Comments (0) As corporate giants get more interested in managing clouds, startups already in the sector are defending their turf and trying to make cloud computing more [...]

]]> By: Citrix Aims to Make Enterprise-Friendly Clouds - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/09/15/citrix-and-vmware-want-to-turn-data-centers-into-clouds/#comment-147150 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=21047#comment-147150 [...] Higginbotham, Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 3:00 PM PT Comments (0) With VMware and Citrix both pushing into the data center with their virtualization products, I had the chance to chat with Simon Crosby briefly about Citrix’s new portfolio of cloud [...]

]]> By: Cisco Virtualizes The Network, The Data Center - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/09/15/citrix-and-vmware-want-to-turn-data-centers-into-clouds/#comment-147149 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:30:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=21047#comment-147149 [...] (0) At the VMWorld Show, Cisco took the first concrete steps to establishing a monopoly in the enterprise data centers with the announcement of a new software switch (Nexus 1000) that would allow networking of [...]

]]> By: Ken Oestreich http://gigaom.com/2008/09/15/citrix-and-vmware-want-to-turn-data-centers-into-clouds/#comment-147148 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:43:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=21047#comment-147148 Thank goodness the market is finally realizing that Cloud Architectures (or utility computing, or whatever you want to call them) are appropriate for inside-the-firewall use as well.

One note, however: VMware is still missing-the-boat on one teeny-weeny aspect of this… that the management system for these architectures must (a) be multi-vendor from a VM perspective, and (b) be able to span virtual *and* physical. One-pane-of-glass. I’d look to Cassatt or some other non-VM-platform provider to provide the real “datacenter O/S” that VMware is offering. I’m not holding my breath regarding whether they’ll support non-VMware technologies.

]]>